Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler